Federal Employee Attitude Survey, September-October 1983 (ICPSR 6034)

Citation

United States Office of Personnel Management. Federal Employee Attitude Survey, September-October 1983. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06034.v1

Summary

This survey was undertaken to obtain information on the
attitudes and perceptions of federal employees on a broad range of
topics related to their jobs, government personnel programs, and
legislation. Questions covered employees' attitudes towards job
satisfaction, satisfaction with their organizations, awareness of a new
performance appraisal system and opinions on its effectiveness and
fairness, the link between performance and reward, merit pay, pay and
benefit comparability with the private sector, civil service
retirement, health benefits, and relations between career and noncareer
executives.

Citation

United States Office of Personnel Management. Federal Employee Attitude Survey, September-October 1983. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1993-10-11. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06034.v1

Data Collection Notes

Sample

This study employed a stratified random sample.
Stratification was by agency and pay category. The sample was drawn
from the Central Personnel Data File using employee Social Security
numbers and excluding employees of the following executive branch
agencies: the Smithsonian Institution, the White House Office, the
Federal Reserve, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Central
Intelligence Agency, and the National Security Agency. The sample was
designed and drawn so that valid comparisons could be made among 6
grade/pay categories on both a government-wide basis and within each of
the 16 agency groupings.

Universe

All executive branch employees in the group of federal
agencies participating in the survey.